Annual TCBES Research Symposium Program

10th Annual TCBES Research Symposium Program

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Thursday, April 5th 2018

Time	Morning Event
9am-9:30am	Opening Remarks
9:30am-10:30am	Keynote Speaker: Chad Wiggins, The Nature Conservancy
10:30am-10:45am	Questions

1st Session: 5min talks

Time	Speaker	Title
10:45am	Gina McGuire, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Australia's Traditional Dugong Population Management: Implications for Modern Conservation Practice
10:50am	Ashley Pugh, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	The Hawaiian Blue Octocoral, Sarcothelia edmondsoni, as a pollution indicator species
10:55am	Eirlys Tysall, UHH TCBES Undergraduate Student	Individual vocalization variation and repertoire size of the endemic Hawaiian thrush ‘oma‘o (Myadestes obscurus)
11:00am	Karen Gallardo Cruz, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Examining the effect of helicopter noise on bird assemblages in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
11:05am	Erin Netoskie, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Behavioral landscape of ʻŌmaʻo (Myadestes obscurus) vocalizations in a naturally fragmented landscape
11:10am	Kristina Montoya-Aiona, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	A revised dichotomous key for adventive bees in Hawai‘i with special focus on a recent invader: Megachile policaris (Megachilidae)
11:15am	Angalee Kirby, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Is biological nitrogen fixation strategy tied to invasive success for non-native woody legumes in Hawai‘i?
11:20am	Joanna Norton, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Is albizia compost a climate-smart alternative to fertilizer use in agriculture?

2nd Session: 15 min talks

Time	Speaker	Title
11:45am	Geneviève Blanchet, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Genomic diversity in the “extinct in the wild” Hawaiian Crow, ‘alalā, (Corvus hawaiiensis)
12:00pm	Kathryn van Dyk, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Important plants for Nectarivorous Birds in a Continuous and Naturally Fragmented Forest on Hawai‘i Island
12:15	Jeff Stallman, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	DNA barcodes fail to accurately differentiate species within Hawaiian plant lineages

12:30pm-1:45pm Lunch Break

3rd Session: 15 min talks

Time	Speaker	Titles
1:45pm	Cherie Kauahi, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Hydrology of Loko Iʻa
2:00pm	Tyler Gerken, UHH Undergraduate Student	Soil sources of Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), and fecal indicator bacteria concentrations in a Hawaiian watershed
2:15pm	Justyne Shope, UHH Undergraduate Student	Phosphate fluxes to the water column from sediments at five marine locations of Hilo, Hawai‘i, USA
2:30pm	Julia M. Stewart, UHH Undergraduate Student	Assessing the photochemistry of healthy and diseased Porites lobata coral tissue in Hilo, East Hawai‘i Island
2:45pm	Roseanna Lee, UHH Undergraduate Student	Changes in obligate coral-feeding reef fish populations after mass coral bleaching at Lisianski Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
3:00pm	Anna Baker Mikkelsen, UHH Undergraduate Student	Tracking long-term shifts in Hawaiian reef fish assemblages: A 17-years view
3:15pm	Rebecca Ostertag, Ryan Perroy, Timothy Sullivan & Jonathan Price, UHH Faculty	Invasive Species on UH Hilo Campus: The Problem and Potential Solutions
3:30pm	Andy Cole, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Modeling plant species densities in Hawai‘i
3:45pm-4:00pm	Closing Remarks

Poster Session & Pau Hana Reception

Time	Poster Author	Title
5:00-7:00pm
	David Arakawa, UHH Undergraduate Student	Genetic underpinnings of beak morphology in birds
	Tyler Jo Branco-Hedke, Tiana Enos-Dano, Ericka Terra Reff, Rebecca Alameida & Stan T. Nakanishi, UHH	Antibacterial efficacy of Hawaiian plants
	Jesse Leavitt, UHH Undergraduate Student	No evidence for horizontal transinfection of Wolbachia from Aedes albopictus to Culex quinquefasciatus following a lab-based feeding trial
	Rebekah Loving, UHH Undergraduate Student	Investigating the effects of rare variants in concurrent drug usage: An association analysis approach
	Michael Ryan Morrissey, Tyler Jo Branco-Hedke, Tiana Enos- Dano, Matthew S. Geddis & Stan T. Nakanishi, UHH	Elucidating the effects of native Hawaiian plants on planarian regeneration
	Michael Pamatat, UHH Undergraduate Student	Investigating the variance of a PCA analogue for phylogenetic trees
	Nikola Rodriguez, UHH Undergraduate Student	Quantitative and qualitative assessment of underwater video annotations
	Ashley Romero, UHH Undergraduate Student	Developing a framework for functional ecology to be used to predict extinction risk in Hawaiian forest birds
	Julia M. Stewart, Roseanna Lee, Matthew Connelly, UHH Undergraduate Student	The Marine Option Program’s SeaSTARS
	Jessica Talbot, UHH Undergraduate Student	Investigating the effects of freshwater input on coral community composition and 3D structure at Honokoa, Hawai‘i
	Veronica White, UHH Undergraduate Student	Investigation of phosphorus levels in Hawai'i island coastal waters and agricultural soil

Friday, April 6th 2018

Time	Morning Event
8:30am-9:00am	Opening Remarks
9:00am-10:00am	Keynote Speaker:Roxane Stewart, Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo
10:00am-10:15am	Questions

4th Session: 5min talks

Time	Speaker	Title
10:15am	Devon Aguiar, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Detection and impact of sewage pollution on a south Kohala coral reef
10:20am	Eszter Collier, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	From the sky above to the dirt under your feet: Mapping biological soil crusts in the Pelekane bay watershed
10:25am	Jeremy Schrader, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Alalā 'Ohana: using genomic methods to estimate relatedness and its effects on fitness in the endangered Hawaiian Crow
10:30am	Bret Nainoa Mossman, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Movement Diet and Survival of ʻŌmaʻo in the Kīpuka System
10:35am	Koa Matsuoka, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Evaluating the Seed Dispersal Efficacy of Hawaiʻi’s Last Functionally Extant Frugivore
10:40am	Jared Nishimoto, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Developing an underdominant gene drive in Culex quinquefasciatus

5th Session: 15 min talks

Time	Speaker	Title
11:00am	Kamala Anthony, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Understanding relationships of primary productivity among three Hawaiian fishponds at Honohononui and Waiuli, Hawaii
11:15am	Julia M. Stewart, UHH Undergraduate Student (Co-authors: Martin Helmkampf & Misaki Takabayashi, UHH Faculty)	Coral immunity: characterization and phylogenetic analysis of Toll-like receptor genes in Montipora capitata
11:30am	Jazmine Panelo, UHH Technician	Spatial distribution and sources of land-based nutrients at coral reefs in South Kohala
11:45am	Brandie Colwell, UHH Undergraduate Student	Forensic Files: DNA sequencing of Ruppia maritima in Hawai‘i

12:00pm-1:45pm Lunch Break

6th Session:15 min talks

Time	Speaker	Title
1:45pm	Corinna Anne Pinzari, UHH TCBES Graduate	Genetic variation, population structure, and morphology of an endemic bat, Lasiurus cinereus semotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) across the Hawaiian Islands
2:00pm	Madhvi Venkatraman, Graduate Student, University of Maryland, College Park	Understanding rapid adaptation to elevation post species introduction in the Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
2:15pm	Maya Munstermann, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Ecological selectivity of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates
2:30pm	Rebekah Loving, UHH Undergraduate Student	Automating weed detection from sUAS-derived imagery with machine learning, using convolutional neural networks
2:45pm	Rose Hart, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Quantifying shoreline change at three unique coastal geomorphologies on Hawai‘i Island
3:00pm	Dominique Zarders, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Mechanisms of the possible host shift of Teleonemia scrupulosa between Lantana camara and Myoporum stellatum
3:15pm	Shea Uehana, UHH TCBES Graduate Student	Further investigation into the dendrochronological potential of Sophora chrysophylla on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘i
3:30pm	Judge Deliberation
4:00-4:30pm	Student Award Winners Announcement
	Silent Auction, Raffle Winners
	Closing Remarks